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That one video where the fan jumps on stage during Earth Song. You just KNOW Michael was having a heart attack

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Should I write an MJ fic and if I do. What should it be About

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I wish Dancing the Dream was longer

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He looks so tall

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He’a sexzy

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This girl gone BAD

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Remembering Michael Jackson today. Michael was a big fan of Musical Theatre and The Phantom of the Opera was his favourite production which he visited many times. Andrew Lloyd Webber has often talked about the times he spent discussing music and theatre as well as various projects with Michael. Here is an article he wrote about this in 2009.

"I first met Michael when he came to see Phantom of the Opera in New York when we'd just opened in 1988. He was clearly interested in the piece. He saw it several times and used to come backstage, often without the entourage that followed him around in later life.

The story got to him. I think he had a connection with the lonely, tortured musician. He found the idea of somebody working through music and having a girl as a muse very intriguing – and he loved that there was illusion in the show.

Michael became interested in playing The Phantom himself, in a movie version of the show. We talked about it a lot, but we'd only just opened and, at the time, I felt that it was too early for it to become a film. I felt his interest in Phantom was because he was interested in doing something theatrical himself.

He was a highly theatrical animal. I remember him saying to me that he'd seen Cats and how happy he was that dance was making a comeback in the theatre. He certainly talked about theatre a lot, and when he was last in London, he went to see Oliver!. Of course, he was a great showman himself, but he found the whole stagecraft of musicals extraordinary.

Seeing clips of Thriller on the news this week reminded me what an extraordinary dancer he was. He really brought dance and staging into the pop world, through his videos and concerts. Nobody before him had really done anything much like that. He was ahead of his time with all that he did.

I saw him a couple of times in concert. Thriller was probably the best stage event I've ever seen. From my musical-theatre perspective, I could see that he was bringing a completely new vision about dance to the stage. A tremendous amount of what he was doing then you see in musicals now.

Musically, Michael was also different to anyone before him. He was clever at taking pop hooks and using them in original ways, developing them theatrically. It's an influence that is now everywhere today. I remember listening to a Justin Timberlake album and hearing Michael's influence.

Young people still keep coming to his music because so many of his songs are classics. In the history of pop, Thriller will possibly stand out more than Sergeant Pepper because there were even more stand-alone hits on it. It's right up there with the all-time great albums.

Similarly, I would absolutely put him up there with the all-time greatest performers. I've seen most of the top rock acts – I saw Elvis several times – but with Michael's concerts, his showmanship was consummate. Very few rock singers have such quality.

Everybody was so looking forward to seeing what he would do when he came back to London. From what I was hearing, he was going to push the boundaries of what we'd seen in a rock arena much, much further.

The debts, all the court cases, and the trouble he got himself into, it was all so sad. But you can probably say already that his music has transcended all of that. Nothing sticks to him. In the end, the music will always survive."

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So stressed. He is the only thing that can calm me

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Can't believe somebody else is voicing these thoughts 😭 his fascination with circus freaks, the loneliness the phantom experiences, the music hyperfixation 😭

Anyway michael would’ve been THE perfect phantom 💔

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M i c h a e l J a c k s o n

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Was talking to somebody about the allegations recently and they thought he was guilty. I was like "OK, why?" hoping to have a conversation about it and they said "idk he just seems like he would do that" they haven't even watched the full documentary. I have RESEARCHED this shit. Don't offend me with your half baked response, if you haven't looked into it then just say you have no fucking idea

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Michael being completely unable to conceal his enthusiasm or emotions ☹️

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Anybody else feel full of rage when they remember the 2300 Jackson Street song and video

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Stranger in Moscow makes me so sad. He sounds so upset and the "swift and sudden fall from grace" makes you realise how sudden it must have felt for him, to go from just living to suddenly having everybody wonder when they look at you if you've committed one of the worst crimes imaginable.

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The 1988 Wembley performance of Human Nature. The way he says "if this town is like an apple" I should have been there. His poses. His beautiful silver shirt and all the bondage clothes. The "everhbody sing!!" His VOCALS